France’s Newen Studios has bought Johnson Production Group (Jpg), a financier, producer and distributor of TV movies.
The 32-year-old group’s founding president Timothy O. Johnson will continue to lead the company. Jpg said it packages, finances and distributes more than 40 TV movies per year, citing the likes of Christmas at Pemberley Manor, Love on the Slopes, Falling in Niagara, Hotwired in Suburbia and Noel Next Door.
Newen said the move comprises part of its strategy to acquire global IP, which kicked off when it bought Reel One five years ago.
Newen Studios CEO Pierre Branco said: “We are delighted to welcome Tim Johnson and his team to the Newen Group. The signing of the agreement for the acquisition marks a new step in the Group’s development and its international expansion. With Reel One and now Jpg, we are becoming one of the world leaders in the production...
The 32-year-old group’s founding president Timothy O. Johnson will continue to lead the company. Jpg said it packages, finances and distributes more than 40 TV movies per year, citing the likes of Christmas at Pemberley Manor, Love on the Slopes, Falling in Niagara, Hotwired in Suburbia and Noel Next Door.
Newen said the move comprises part of its strategy to acquire global IP, which kicked off when it bought Reel One five years ago.
Newen Studios CEO Pierre Branco said: “We are delighted to welcome Tim Johnson and his team to the Newen Group. The signing of the agreement for the acquisition marks a new step in the Group’s development and its international expansion. With Reel One and now Jpg, we are becoming one of the world leaders in the production...
- 7/25/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Sony Pictures Classics has picked up all rights worldwide to Richard Linklater’s upcoming Blue Moon starring Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, and Andrew Scott.
Production is scheduled to begin in early July in Dublin on the feature, which profiles the final days of Lorenz Hart, one half of the songwriting team Rodgers & Hart.
Blue Moon is set primarily in Sardi’s Restaurant on March 31, 1943, the opening night of Oklahoma!, Rodgers’ first collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein II as Hart’s replacement.
Sony Pictures Classics is co-financing with Renovo Media Group and will support the production. Sony will release the film worldwide.
Production is scheduled to begin in early July in Dublin on the feature, which profiles the final days of Lorenz Hart, one half of the songwriting team Rodgers & Hart.
Blue Moon is set primarily in Sardi’s Restaurant on March 31, 1943, the opening night of Oklahoma!, Rodgers’ first collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein II as Hart’s replacement.
Sony Pictures Classics is co-financing with Renovo Media Group and will support the production. Sony will release the film worldwide.
- 6/18/2024
- ScreenDaily
After making his last two movies for Netflix, Richard Linklater is heading back to movie theaters for his next project, and he’s also reuniting with one of his longtime collaborators for the first time in a decade: Ethan Hawke.
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired the rights to what will be Linklater’s next film, “Blue Moon,” the distributor announced Tuesday, June 18. Joining the project are Hawke, now working with Linklater for the ninth time, as well as Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, and “Ripley” star Andrew Scott.
Principal photography on “Blue Moon” begins in Dublin, Ireland this summer with financing from Sony Pictures Classics and Renovo Media Group.
“Blue Moon” is about the final days of Lorenz Hart, who was half of the songwriting duo Rodgers and Hart. The film takes place largely in Sardi’s Restaurant on March 31, 1943 on the opening night of “Oklahoma!,” the first project Rodgers would...
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired the rights to what will be Linklater’s next film, “Blue Moon,” the distributor announced Tuesday, June 18. Joining the project are Hawke, now working with Linklater for the ninth time, as well as Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, and “Ripley” star Andrew Scott.
Principal photography on “Blue Moon” begins in Dublin, Ireland this summer with financing from Sony Pictures Classics and Renovo Media Group.
“Blue Moon” is about the final days of Lorenz Hart, who was half of the songwriting duo Rodgers and Hart. The film takes place largely in Sardi’s Restaurant on March 31, 1943 on the opening night of “Oklahoma!,” the first project Rodgers would...
- 6/18/2024
- by Brian Welk
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Sony Pictures Classics has acquired worldwide rights to Blue Moon, the new film from Academy Award nominee Richard Linklater (Hit Man), on which we were first to report, and which will be his next effort after all, with production commencing in Dublin, Ireland this summer.
Ethan Hawke is set to star, in his ninth collaboration with Linklater. Others aboard for roles include Margaret Qualley (The Substance), Bobby Cannavale (Ezra) and Andrew Scott (Ripley).
According to Linklater, who’d previously hinted at a long-time passion project with Hawke, “Robert, Ethan, and I have been developing this story for over a decade and are excited and grateful that the time has come to bring this to life.”
Written by Robert Kaplow, author of the novel Me and Orson Welles which inspired the Linklater film of the same name, Blue Moon profiles the final days of Lorenz Hart, part of the hit songwriting team Rodgers & Hart.
Ethan Hawke is set to star, in his ninth collaboration with Linklater. Others aboard for roles include Margaret Qualley (The Substance), Bobby Cannavale (Ezra) and Andrew Scott (Ripley).
According to Linklater, who’d previously hinted at a long-time passion project with Hawke, “Robert, Ethan, and I have been developing this story for over a decade and are excited and grateful that the time has come to bring this to life.”
Written by Robert Kaplow, author of the novel Me and Orson Welles which inspired the Linklater film of the same name, Blue Moon profiles the final days of Lorenz Hart, part of the hit songwriting team Rodgers & Hart.
- 6/18/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: As his acclaimed comedic thriller Hit Man approaches its June 7 release on Netflix, filmmaker Richard Linklater may have identified his next project, as sources tell Deadline that he’s in development on a film called Blue Moon.
Taking its name from the 1934 ballad written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, the film follows Hart as he attempts to save face while celebrating his former partner Rodgers’ great success on the night of his musical Oklahoma!‘s Broadway opening. While it’s believed that this will end up being Linklater’s next film, that’s not entirely clear at present.
We’re told that Robert Kaplow — co-writer of Linklater’s 2008 film Me and Orson Welles — penned the script for Blue Moon and that Linklater will produce the project alongside his manager John Sloss.
A legendary American songwriting duo known for their contributions to musical theater, Rodgers and Hart collaborated between 1919 and the early 1940s,...
Taking its name from the 1934 ballad written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, the film follows Hart as he attempts to save face while celebrating his former partner Rodgers’ great success on the night of his musical Oklahoma!‘s Broadway opening. While it’s believed that this will end up being Linklater’s next film, that’s not entirely clear at present.
We’re told that Robert Kaplow — co-writer of Linklater’s 2008 film Me and Orson Welles — penned the script for Blue Moon and that Linklater will produce the project alongside his manager John Sloss.
A legendary American songwriting duo known for their contributions to musical theater, Rodgers and Hart collaborated between 1919 and the early 1940s,...
- 6/3/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
First up, this is not non-fiction; there’s a disclaimer on the copyright page: “This book is a work of fiction inspired by actual events.” It does use the real names of all of the people involved, was written or co-written by the main character, and roughly follows the real history as far as I can determine from news stories and the description of David Good’s 2015 prose memoir The Way Around .
But there’s something constructed at the core of the graphic novel Good.: From the Amazon Jungle to Suburbia and Back that led to that disclaimer. I don’t know all of the details. But it’s clear that this is not, at its core, true. And that’s a puzzling thing for a book positioned as a memoir.
David Good is the eldest of three children of American anthropologist Kenneth Good and the Yanomani woman Yarima.
But there’s something constructed at the core of the graphic novel Good.: From the Amazon Jungle to Suburbia and Back that led to that disclaimer. I don’t know all of the details. But it’s clear that this is not, at its core, true. And that’s a puzzling thing for a book positioned as a memoir.
David Good is the eldest of three children of American anthropologist Kenneth Good and the Yanomani woman Yarima.
- 5/15/2024
- by Andrew Wheeler
- Comicmix.com
London Thor (Shameless) has joined the cast of Prime Video’s upcoming spinoff of The Boys as a lead, replacing Reina Hardesty weeks after the actress’ exit, which Deadline exclusively revealed.
Thor is the latest actor to join the untitled spinoff in a recasting amid a number of recent departures. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina‘s Chance Perdomo came to the project replacing Shane Paul McGhie, who departed the series with Aimee Carrero and Hardesty.
Also joining the cast as series regulars are Derek Luh (Shining Vale), newcomer Asa Germann and Shelley Conn (Bridgerton). They will join previously announced cast members Jaz Sinclair, Lizze Broadway and Maddie Phillips. The series hails from showrunners Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters.
The Untitled The Boys spinoff, which is now in production, is described as an irreverent, R-rated series that explores the lives of hormonal, competitive Supes as they put their physical, sexual, and moral boundaries to the test,...
Thor is the latest actor to join the untitled spinoff in a recasting amid a number of recent departures. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina‘s Chance Perdomo came to the project replacing Shane Paul McGhie, who departed the series with Aimee Carrero and Hardesty.
Also joining the cast as series regulars are Derek Luh (Shining Vale), newcomer Asa Germann and Shelley Conn (Bridgerton). They will join previously announced cast members Jaz Sinclair, Lizze Broadway and Maddie Phillips. The series hails from showrunners Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters.
The Untitled The Boys spinoff, which is now in production, is described as an irreverent, R-rated series that explores the lives of hormonal, competitive Supes as they put their physical, sexual, and moral boundaries to the test,...
- 5/9/2022
- by Alexandra Del Rosario
- Deadline Film + TV
Wayne’s World is celebrating its 30-year anniversary and it’s party time. Excellent. Originally released on Feb. 14, 1992, and most recently re-released in a Blu-ray Steelbook edition, it brought Mike Myers and Dana Carvey’s lo-fi cable hosts Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar from weekly segment appearances on Saturday Night Live to global domination on the big screen.
Written by Myers, Bonnie Turner, and Terry Turner, Wayne’s World wasn’t expected to be a hit, much less a comedy classic with a $183 million worldwide box office take, and a sequel. It defied convention, enthusiastically breaking the fourth wall with characters directly addressing the camera, and exploring self-referential jokes, random cultural spoofs, and self-fulfilling alternative ending gags.
Also starring Rob Lowe, Tia Carrere, Lara Flynn Boyle, Brian Doyle-Murray, Chris Farley, Ed O’Neill, and Ione Skye, Wayne’s World captured every key demographic. Advertisers begged to get spoofed in the product placement take-down takeoffs,...
Written by Myers, Bonnie Turner, and Terry Turner, Wayne’s World wasn’t expected to be a hit, much less a comedy classic with a $183 million worldwide box office take, and a sequel. It defied convention, enthusiastically breaking the fourth wall with characters directly addressing the camera, and exploring self-referential jokes, random cultural spoofs, and self-fulfilling alternative ending gags.
Also starring Rob Lowe, Tia Carrere, Lara Flynn Boyle, Brian Doyle-Murray, Chris Farley, Ed O’Neill, and Ione Skye, Wayne’s World captured every key demographic. Advertisers begged to get spoofed in the product placement take-down takeoffs,...
- 2/14/2022
- by Mike Cecchini
- Den of Geek
The Broadway-bound Hillary and Clinton has completed its casting, tapping Broadway vet Peter Francis James as “Barack” and Wet Hot American Summer‘s Zak Orth as Hillary’s campaign manager “Mark,” as in Penn.
The two join the previously announced title stars of the play, Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow.
Produced by Scott Rudin, who announced the casting, and directed by Joe Mantello, playwright Lucas Hnath’s Hillary and Clinton begins performances March 16, 2019, at Broadway’s John Golden Theatre. The official opening night is April 18.
The play goes behind closed doors in the state of New Hampshire during the early days of 2008, as former First Lady Hillary is in a desperate bid to save her troubled campaign against Barack for President of the United States. Husband Bill sees things one way, while campaign manager Mark sees them another.
Perhaps explaining the lack of surnames in the official description, the...
The two join the previously announced title stars of the play, Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow.
Produced by Scott Rudin, who announced the casting, and directed by Joe Mantello, playwright Lucas Hnath’s Hillary and Clinton begins performances March 16, 2019, at Broadway’s John Golden Theatre. The official opening night is April 18.
The play goes behind closed doors in the state of New Hampshire during the early days of 2008, as former First Lady Hillary is in a desperate bid to save her troubled campaign against Barack for President of the United States. Husband Bill sees things one way, while campaign manager Mark sees them another.
Perhaps explaining the lack of surnames in the official description, the...
- 10/31/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Project Name: Suburbia
Asking For: $7,700 through Indiegogo
Amount Raised Thus Far (At Time Of Post): $1,495
Days Remaining In Campaign (At Time Of Post): 30
Description: The freedom provided by the web series medium is giving young creators the chance to show off their ideas. Two of those up-and-comers are Liam Loomer and Matt Nutile, who have taken to Indiegogo to seek funding for a sitcom titled Suburbia.
Suburbia, as its title indicates, takes place in one of the many quiet bedroom communities that exist across America. Its protagonists are slackers who are lazy, privileged, and, most of all, bored of their surroundings. Through their conversations, the show's creators plan to tackle several deep coming-of-age themes, including the fear of change.
That may sound dramatic, but Suburbia still looks like it will be both a comedy and a though-provoking treatise on the modern suburb. Find out more in the pitch...
Asking For: $7,700 through Indiegogo
Amount Raised Thus Far (At Time Of Post): $1,495
Days Remaining In Campaign (At Time Of Post): 30
Description: The freedom provided by the web series medium is giving young creators the chance to show off their ideas. Two of those up-and-comers are Liam Loomer and Matt Nutile, who have taken to Indiegogo to seek funding for a sitcom titled Suburbia.
Suburbia, as its title indicates, takes place in one of the many quiet bedroom communities that exist across America. Its protagonists are slackers who are lazy, privileged, and, most of all, bored of their surroundings. Through their conversations, the show's creators plan to tackle several deep coming-of-age themes, including the fear of change.
That may sound dramatic, but Suburbia still looks like it will be both a comedy and a though-provoking treatise on the modern suburb. Find out more in the pitch...
- 3/22/2018
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Photo courtesy of Penelope SpheerisOn a Saturday morning in Los Angeles I found myself on the corner of Lookout and Wonderland. As cars zoomed by giving me the “what are you doing here” side-eye and adult men walking tiny dogs surrounded me with their faux-friendly, suspicious waves, I felt superficially like one of the gutter punks—out of place, but unapologetically present—in the films of the director for whom I was patiently waiting curbside, the undisputed Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll Filmmakers: Penelope Spheeris. Earlier in the week, Spheeris (The Decline of Western Civilization, 1981; Suburbia, 1983; Wayne’s World, 1992) asked me to meet her on this seemingly random street corner in Laurel Canyon where she promised to pick me up in her silver Escalade and take us up the long, winding path to her new home—currently under construction—so that we might converse on the balcony while overlooking the peaceful,...
- 3/4/2018
- MUBI
Anyone who knows independent film history also knows “Spike, Mike, Slackers and Dykes,” a memoir by seminal producer’s rep John Pierson of his role in launching the careers of filmmakers such as Kevin Smith, Spike Lee, and Richard Linklater. Between 1997 and 2001, Pierson had a new way to spotlight talented filmmakers with IFC’s “Split Screen.” Now FilmStruck has acquired “Split Screen” streaming rights and, starting this Saturday, the original episodes will become available, with six episodes added every six weeks. Pierson spoke to IndieWire by phone and shared his thoughts as to why the show still belongs on your radar.
The Late ’90s Were an Optimistic Moment
Whether it’s showing somebody you know, somebody you should know, or somebody you may never know because we featured some wacky people who never went anywhere — that sense of optimism permeates most everything we did. To me, this is a nice...
The Late ’90s Were an Optimistic Moment
Whether it’s showing somebody you know, somebody you should know, or somebody you may never know because we featured some wacky people who never went anywhere — that sense of optimism permeates most everything we did. To me, this is a nice...
- 12/9/2016
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
John Pierson’s ‘Split Screen’: FilmStruck Announces New Streaming Home For Seminal Television Series
For two years back in the late nineties and early aughts, producer, author and all-around film lover John Pierson hit the road alongside his own group of fellow cinephiles to explore the filmmaking scene in a variety of venues and with a ton of exciting guests.
The venture resulted in his beloved television series “Split Screen,” which introduced movie buffs to all manner of filmmakers and their creations over the course of 60-plus episodes. “Split Screen” was IFCtv’s signature series from 1997-2000, boasting such guests as Spike Lee, Richard Linklater, Kevin Smith, Mary Harron, Katherine Dieckmann and many, many more.
Read More: Watch: ‘Jackie’ Director Pablo Larraín Discusses ‘Movies That Inspire Me’ in New IndieWire Video Series Presented by FilmStruck
While the series has long been available online in bits and pieces, it’s now bound for a brand new internet home, where it will be available in all its wild glory,...
The venture resulted in his beloved television series “Split Screen,” which introduced movie buffs to all manner of filmmakers and their creations over the course of 60-plus episodes. “Split Screen” was IFCtv’s signature series from 1997-2000, boasting such guests as Spike Lee, Richard Linklater, Kevin Smith, Mary Harron, Katherine Dieckmann and many, many more.
Read More: Watch: ‘Jackie’ Director Pablo Larraín Discusses ‘Movies That Inspire Me’ in New IndieWire Video Series Presented by FilmStruck
While the series has long been available online in bits and pieces, it’s now bound for a brand new internet home, where it will be available in all its wild glory,...
- 12/6/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Austin, Texas filmmaker Richard Linklater helped define the 1990s American indie scene with “Slacker,” a loose collection of conversations with real and invented personalities from the local Austin scene. That first film set a pattern for the filmmaker, who often employs large casts to create sprawling slice of life portraits. The lineup in “Dazed and Confused” could overwhelm a “best characters” list from many other filmmakers, and then there are the “Before” trilogy, “Boyhood,” and the new “Everybody Wants Some!!” to consider, among many others. Read More: SXSW Review: Richard Linklater’s ‘Everybody Wants Some!!’ With Blake Jenner, Tyler Hoechlin, Zoey Deutch & More While often an author of his own scripts, Linklater has adapted material by Eric Bogosian (“SubUrbia”), Eric Schlosser (“Fast Food Nation”), Stephen Belber (“Tape”), Philip K. Dick (“A Scanner Darkly”), and Bill Lancaster (“Bad News Bears”). Even in those cases, the director’s methods and style...
- 4/4/2016
- by Russ Fischer
- The Playlist
Premiering at Sundance 25 years after his seminal second feature film, Slacker, Richard Linklater: Dream is Destiny, produced for the PBS series American Masters, is the kind of documentary that requires little introduction. Borrowing its title from the opening moments of his Waking Life — a film that itself represented a rebirth for the Austin-based filmmaker following his second studio feature The Newton Boys — and combining behind-the-scenes footage from many of Linklater’s films (from Slacker to his upcoming Everybody Wants Some) with a history of Austin’s independent film scene, as developed by Linklater and the Austin Film Society, the picture reflectively weaves together a history of a master filmmaker whose work is squarely interested in the passage of time. The picture includes commentary by the late Siskel and Ebert, along with critic / scholar Kent Jones and, very briefly, Kevin Smith.
Directed by Louis Black (SXSW and Austin Chronicle founder) and Karen Bernstein,...
Directed by Louis Black (SXSW and Austin Chronicle founder) and Karen Bernstein,...
- 1/27/2016
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
To American audiences exploring the indie film scene in the 1990s, few names mattered as much as Richard Linklater’s. One of Generation X’s essential voices, Linklater’s idiosyncratic dialogue-driven efforts – Slacker, Before Sunrise, Dazed & Confused, to name a few – struck a nerve among film fans across the country and beyond. On the verge of earning his first Oscar nomination for Best Director for the coming-of-adolescence masterwork Boyhood, the indie underdog is finally starting to reap the praises he has deserved since starting his career nearly 25 years ago.
Boyhood brought the writer/director virtually unanimous praise from critics and audiences. In the wake of that film’s success, though, a light career retrospective of Linklater’s principal work from the new documentary 21 Years: Richard Linklater, feels superfluous. It is easy to figure out why he is such an essential director to audiences craving original material, to the actors he...
Boyhood brought the writer/director virtually unanimous praise from critics and audiences. In the wake of that film’s success, though, a light career retrospective of Linklater’s principal work from the new documentary 21 Years: Richard Linklater, feels superfluous. It is easy to figure out why he is such an essential director to audiences craving original material, to the actors he...
- 11/4/2014
- by Jordan Adler
- We Got This Covered
The Independent Filmmaker Project will honor Richard Linklater with its Director Tribute at the 23rd annual Gotham Independent Film Awards, set for Dec. 2 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. Linklater, whose most recent film is this year’s Before Midnight, distributed by Sony Pictures Classics, has been making films since 1988's It’s Impossible to Plow by Reading Books. He made his name with 1991’s Slacker and 1993’s Dazed and Confused. His credits also include Suburbia, The Newton Boys, The Waking Life, Bad News Bears, A Scanner Darkly and
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- 9/17/2013
- by Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Self-taught writer-director Richard Linklater was among the most successful talents to emerge from the new wave of independent American filmmakers in the 1990s. Typically setting each of his movies during one 24-hour time period – and with non-formulaic narratives about seemingly random occurrences – Linklater’s work explored what he dubbed “the youth rebellion continuum.” In the early 1990s, his debut feature Slacker was hailed as something of a manifesto for Generation X, and ever since, the filmmaker has earned a loyal fan-base world wide with such hits as Dazed and Confused, Before Sunrise. As big fans of the filmmaker, the Sound On Sight staff decided to vote on our ten favourite films from the director.
Note: There was two ties.
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10: Suburbia
Originally a play by performance-artist Eric Bogosian (who also wrote the script), Suburbia is a character driven mood piece, which delves into the hearts and minds of a group of young adults.
Note: There was two ties.
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10: Suburbia
Originally a play by performance-artist Eric Bogosian (who also wrote the script), Suburbia is a character driven mood piece, which delves into the hearts and minds of a group of young adults.
- 6/18/2013
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Slacker
Directed by Richard Linklater
Written by Richard Linklater
1991, USA
In 1990, Slacker put Richard Linklater and Austin Texas in the spotlight. Roger Ebert gave the film three out of four stars and wrote, “Slacker is a movie with an appeal almost impossible to describe, although the method of the director, Richard Linklater, is as clear as day”.
Slacker came out around the same time that Douglas Coupland released his book, Generation X, and the young filmmaker became an instant spokesperson for an entire generation. While Generation X as a whole sometimes seemed to lack direction, its filmmakers devoted their early careers to making powerful statements about contemporary society and their generation’s role in it. Linklater (Suburbia, Dazed and Confused) emerged as the reluctant messenger for a generation labeled, packaged and sold as a defiant demographic dedicated to shredding whatever classification society tried to mark them as. Nominated for the...
Directed by Richard Linklater
Written by Richard Linklater
1991, USA
In 1990, Slacker put Richard Linklater and Austin Texas in the spotlight. Roger Ebert gave the film three out of four stars and wrote, “Slacker is a movie with an appeal almost impossible to describe, although the method of the director, Richard Linklater, is as clear as day”.
Slacker came out around the same time that Douglas Coupland released his book, Generation X, and the young filmmaker became an instant spokesperson for an entire generation. While Generation X as a whole sometimes seemed to lack direction, its filmmakers devoted their early careers to making powerful statements about contemporary society and their generation’s role in it. Linklater (Suburbia, Dazed and Confused) emerged as the reluctant messenger for a generation labeled, packaged and sold as a defiant demographic dedicated to shredding whatever classification society tried to mark them as. Nominated for the...
- 6/5/2013
- by Ricky da Conceição
- SoundOnSight
Richard Linklater has always been a favorite of mine. From the classic high school flick Dazed And Confused to the engaging Suburbia, he has always found a way to tap into his characters with an honest edge. Yet it is Before Sunrise, Before Sunset and his latest, Before Midnight that really manage to convey love, relationships and the simple power of connecting with somebody in a fascinating and satisfying way. When I spoke to this incredibly talented writer/director, we talked about the...
- 5/24/2013
- by JimmyO
- JoBlo.com
Richard Linklater was heralded as a major new American filmmaker with his first feature "Slacker" in 1991, and he's never really slowed down. While delivering the occasional mixed bag ("SubUrbia," "Tape"), he destroyed any expectations of a sophomore slump with the still-potent "Dazed and Confused," then deepened his brand with the grandest achievement of his career to date, "Before Sunrise." It wasn't so much that this brooding two-hander romance starring Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke embroiled in philosophical chatter over the course of a single memorable night broke new ground; rather, it had the audacity to make peace with its simple premise and imbue it with profound ideas. Having established a formula that works -- strong, likable characters + intellectual debate = uniquely thrilling cinema about the nuances of human behavior -- Linklater again capitalized on the concept with the equally well-received sequel...
- 12/20/2012
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Robert Pattinson didn't always lust for blood. Taylor Lautner only recently started removing his shirt all the time. Granted Kristen Stewart usually runs her fingers through her hair and bites her lip, but not always as Bella.
Believe it or not, the stars of "Twilight" do act in other movies. In fact, the most forward thinking Cullen, Ashley Greene has "The Apparition" out this week.
So in honor of the Ashley Greene movie that doesn't involve fangs, here are our favorite movies starring the cast of "Twilight."
"Adventureland"
Despite recent—ummm—parallels people have drawn between "Adventureland" and a few current events, this is a movie that examines relations of all kinds in a more adult way than any of the tabloids have. Jesse Eisenberg does his best Jesse Eisenberg opposite Kristen Stewart, doing her best Kristen Stewart, but the two young actors have genuine, albeit awkward, chemistry and portray...
Believe it or not, the stars of "Twilight" do act in other movies. In fact, the most forward thinking Cullen, Ashley Greene has "The Apparition" out this week.
So in honor of the Ashley Greene movie that doesn't involve fangs, here are our favorite movies starring the cast of "Twilight."
"Adventureland"
Despite recent—ummm—parallels people have drawn between "Adventureland" and a few current events, this is a movie that examines relations of all kinds in a more adult way than any of the tabloids have. Jesse Eisenberg does his best Jesse Eisenberg opposite Kristen Stewart, doing her best Kristen Stewart, but the two young actors have genuine, albeit awkward, chemistry and portray...
- 8/23/2012
- by Kevin P. Sullivan
- MTV Movies Blog
Given that he's one of the more diverse and prolific filmmakers out there, it's been a disappointingly long four years without a new movie from Richard Linklater ("Me and Orson Welles" premiered at Tiff in 2008). Fortunately, the Austin, Texas-based filmmaker is back with "Bernie," a dark comedy which reunites him with two of his most memorable leads, Jack Black and Matthew McConaughey, that has picked up strong reviews and, opening in limited release last Friday, has been performing surprisingly well at the box office.
With "Bernie" expanding wider this weekend (read our review), it seemed like the perfect time to look over Linklater's diverse and eclectic career. He'd already made his mark by founding the Austin Film Society in 1985 (which has gone on to be the center of the industy in the Texas city), but since his debut with an ultra-low-budget student film in 1988, Linklater's tackled everything from romance to...
With "Bernie" expanding wider this weekend (read our review), it seemed like the perfect time to look over Linklater's diverse and eclectic career. He'd already made his mark by founding the Austin Film Society in 1985 (which has gone on to be the center of the industy in the Texas city), but since his debut with an ultra-low-budget student film in 1988, Linklater's tackled everything from romance to...
- 5/2/2012
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
Yesterday at the SXSW Film Festival, we sat in on a panel consisting, mostly, of a laid back conversation between filmmaker Richard Linklater (whose new film "Bernie" played the fest) and legendary music supervisor Randall Poster (he has two movies in the theaters right now, "Friends With Kids" and "The Vow," he produced the LCD Soundsystem documentary "Shut Up And Play The Hits" which played SXSW and just picked up an Emmy for his work on Martin Scorsese's "Boardwalk Empire"). The two had worked together before, most notably on "School of Rock," and the hour-long chat was breezy and informative, giving off the feeling of two old friends catching up and sharing stories. There was also a fair bit of prickliness (one of the first things Linklater groaned was, "That was when they actually put out soundtracks").
One of the more fun aspects of the panel was that Linklater...
One of the more fun aspects of the panel was that Linklater...
- 3/16/2012
- by Drew Taylor
- The Playlist
I promise not to begin every Austin Cinematic Limits post with a discussion on Richard Linklater’s significance to Austin’s filmmaking community, but he is an integral piece of the puzzle when it comes to Austin’s long-standing relationship with the Sundance Film Festival. Other Austin filmmakers may have traveled with films to Sundance before him (though I am not sure who they are), but Linklater deserves the credit for initially spraying Austin’s mark on the snowy slopes of Sundance with his regional premiere of Slacker in 1991 — and Linklater did not end his relationship with Sundance there, as he holds the distinction of being the Austin director who has screened the most feature films at Sundance (Slacker [1991], Before Sunrise [1995], SubUrbia [1996], Waking Life [2001] and Tape [2001]). Ever since Linklater plowed that initial path in January 1991, Austin filmmakers have frequented the silver screens at Sundance year after year. In fact, no matter how you define an Austin filmmaker...
- 1/23/2012
- by Don Simpson
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
In 1991 two films changed the landscape of indie cinema by making the frugality of the budget a selling point. Where are the microbudget film directors now?
Hollywood has always operated on the principle that more is more: each time the most expensive film ever made arrives in cinemas, budgetary extravagance becomes a major selling point. But 20 years ago, the Us independent sector stumbled upon its own marketing equivalent: the microbudget. Suddenly it became apparent that a film's financial shortcomings could be exploited to its advantage.
In 1991, two films changed the landscape of indie cinema and the way in which it was sold. Richard Linklater's Slacker, which drops in on around 100 misfits and eccentrics during 24 hours in Austin, Texas, and Matty Rich's Straight Out of Brooklyn, a tale of young no-hopers in New York's housing projects, marked the start of a phenomenon – frugality as a marketing hook
Neither were the...
Hollywood has always operated on the principle that more is more: each time the most expensive film ever made arrives in cinemas, budgetary extravagance becomes a major selling point. But 20 years ago, the Us independent sector stumbled upon its own marketing equivalent: the microbudget. Suddenly it became apparent that a film's financial shortcomings could be exploited to its advantage.
In 1991, two films changed the landscape of indie cinema and the way in which it was sold. Richard Linklater's Slacker, which drops in on around 100 misfits and eccentrics during 24 hours in Austin, Texas, and Matty Rich's Straight Out of Brooklyn, a tale of young no-hopers in New York's housing projects, marked the start of a phenomenon – frugality as a marketing hook
Neither were the...
- 9/23/2011
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
Anyone who knows the work of Richard Linklater may be surprised to hear that he is entertaining the idea of directing a film based on Bush Jr. administration aide Karl Rove. Linklater has given us three of the biggest slacker films of our generation with Dazed and Confused, Suburbia, and, of course, Slacker. Personally, I think it is going to be fun to see what he will do tackling the other side of spectrum.
- 8/31/2011
- by Jeremy Wynia
- GetTheBigPicture.net
Heralded Music Supervisor Says Favorite Wes Anderson Film Is 'Life Aquatic' & Yes, He's Already At Work On 'Moon Rise Kingdom' Richard Linklater was a no-show to his SXSW conversation with celebrated music supervisor Randall Poster--bummer--(they've worked together on "The School of Rock," "Before Sunrise" and "SubUrbia" which members of Sonic Youth did some uncredited musical score work on). But Poster soldiered on with Graham Reynolds, the composer currently working on Linklater's next picture, the West Texas-set black comedy, "Bernie," starring Jack Black and Matthew McConaughey. Known for his music supervision work on all of Wes Anderson's films, Poster was…...
- 3/15/2011
- The Playlist
Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly failed to find an audience in 2006, despite the presence of Keanu Reeves and Robert Downey, Jr. Here's why it deserves a second chance…
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The Polar Express, Beowulf, Avatar, Spielberg and Jackson's forthcoming Tintin series. These films all have one thing in common (actually two things - they were all in 3D): they were made utilising motion capture technology.
This basically means that the actors perform before a green screen and the FX bods not only fill in the backgrounds using CG animation, but they also animate over the actors themselves to create new animated characters with the realistic movement of a human (Gollum in The Lord Of The Rings was created in the same way).
The 2D ancestor to this method is called rotoscoping, and is essentially the same thing but uses a traditional hand drawn process instead of CGI.
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The Polar Express, Beowulf, Avatar, Spielberg and Jackson's forthcoming Tintin series. These films all have one thing in common (actually two things - they were all in 3D): they were made utilising motion capture technology.
This basically means that the actors perform before a green screen and the FX bods not only fill in the backgrounds using CG animation, but they also animate over the actors themselves to create new animated characters with the realistic movement of a human (Gollum in The Lord Of The Rings was created in the same way).
The 2D ancestor to this method is called rotoscoping, and is essentially the same thing but uses a traditional hand drawn process instead of CGI.
- 6/22/2010
- Den of Geek
"The challenge in doing a Stephen Sondheim show is that the bar is raised so high," says Aaron Lazar, who plays the buffoonish Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm in the Broadway revival of "A Little Night Music." "You want to make Steve happy; you want him to approve. Some great actors have been part of Steve's work. You want to feel you have been cast well."It's a tall order, but no taller than the challenges facing five other singing actors appearing on the Main Stem in productions representing an array of musical genres—from punk rock to rhythm and blues to golden oldies of the 1950s. Lazar, who is a veteran musical-theater performer, says Sondheim's lyrics are so specifically written for each character, "if you lose your place, it's not easy to ad-lib. I'd be lying if I told you I wasn't going over the words to the songs backstage before I go on.
- 5/20/2010
- backstage.com
Greg Mottola's Adventureland was one of the best films of 2009, and his first film, The Daytrippers, is another sweet and salty gem, sending a Long Island family (including Hope Davis and Parker Posey) in pursuit of a philandering husband.The Daytrippers Dir. Greg Mottola (1996) In order to truly understand Long Island, whose shores stretch from paragons of tackiness (the Amy Fisher case, Lindsay Lohan's public meltdown) to the snooty wonderland of the Hamptons, you probably have to consider the development of the American suburb. Suburbia first truly thrived in Long Island, and yet the cultural opportunities of New York City are just a day's reach away. That's the central motif and great divide explored in Greg Mottola's very funny debut film, The Daytrippers, which pivots on a secret love note that heretofore happily married Eliza (Hope Davis) finds one morning. Unfortunately, the...
- 12/11/2009
- by Tribeca Film
- Huffington Post
The Daytrippers Dir. Greg Mottola (1996) In order to truly understand Long Island, whose shores stretch from paragons of tackiness (the Amy Fisher case, Lindsay Lohan's public meltdown) to the snooty wonderland of the Hamptons, you probably have to consider the development of the American suburb. Suburbia first truly thrived in Long Island, and yet the cultural opportunities of New York City are just a day's reach away. That's the central motif and great divide explored in Greg Mottola's very funny debut film, The Daytrippers, which pivots on a secret love note that heretofore happily married Eliza (Hope Davis) finds one morning. Unfortunately, the note is meant for another. In shock, she and her family (including Anne Meara, Parker Posey doing her best 90s girl, and Liev Schreiber as her literary fiancee) head off in the family station wagon in order to find, and confront, the possibly philandering Louis...
- 12/10/2009
- TribecaFilm.com
It’s been five years since Green Day’s multi-platinum, Grammy-winning album “American Idiot” came out, but work on the material is still very alive. A musical adaptation is set to debut at California’s Berkeley Repertory Theater in September and frontman Billie Joe Armstrong continues to push for developing the disc’s post-9/11 stories for the big screen. And he wants to do it in an unexpected way.
"I thought 'American Idiot' had a lot in common with something like 'Rocky Horror Picture Show,'" Billie Joe told The Associated Press. "It would great to see a film made out of it someday too."
Strange, perhaps. But “Idiot” has been subtly intertwined, at least in the minds of Green Day’s musical trio, for years. During the “Idiot” tour in 2004, concert-goers who arrived early to the venue were treated to the sounds of the "Rocky Horror Picture Show" soundtrack...
"I thought 'American Idiot' had a lot in common with something like 'Rocky Horror Picture Show,'" Billie Joe told The Associated Press. "It would great to see a film made out of it someday too."
Strange, perhaps. But “Idiot” has been subtly intertwined, at least in the minds of Green Day’s musical trio, for years. During the “Idiot” tour in 2004, concert-goers who arrived early to the venue were treated to the sounds of the "Rocky Horror Picture Show" soundtrack...
- 7/27/2009
- by Eric Ditzian
- MTV Movies Blog
- Richard Linklater releases his second film of 2006 with Fast Food Nation, a film adaptation of Eric Schlosser’s bestselling book of the same title. Earlier this year he released A Scanner Darkly, another adaptation, this from a Philip K. Dick novel about a narcotic’s officer in the near future loosing his grip on reality as he’s drawn further and further into an addiction to Substance D, a euphoric drug with the side effect of causing the right and left sides of the brain to act independently and compete with each other. Linklater took and experimental approach – shooting it in digital video and animating it in post-production with a computer-based rotoscoping program – and stayed very true to the source material, something previous adaptations of Dick’s work (Total Recall, Minority Report, Blade Runner) veered away from. With Fast Food Nation, Linklater and Schlosser do the complete opposite – while
- 11/18/2006
- IONCINEMA.com
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